"We not only do not believe that any are foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utter abhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they are anathema."
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Bishops of the Council of Orange (A.D. 529), rejecting the doctrine that God creates some men in order to damn them.
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